SOHR: Russian aircraft killed at leas1,236 people in Syria during the year
Russian warplanes carried out more than 8,000 air and missile strikes this year, targeting separate areas of Syrian territory, in which more than 1,236 people were killed, including 235 civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory.
63 months after the Russian military intervention in the Syrian crisis, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said:
Russian warplanes have killed more than 1,236 people since the beginning of this year.
In details, the observatory indicated that among the dead were 235 civilians (including 58 children and 41 women), 394 mercenaries from ISIS who were killed in air strikes, in addition to 607 mercenaries from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhet al-Nusra, which is classified on the list of international terrorism), and the Islamic Party Turkestan, some of them are of Arab nationalities and others are foreign.
The human losses since the Russian intervention in the Syrian crisis on September 30, 2015, until December 30 of this year, reached 20 thousand and 509 people, including 8,661 civilians, who are (2,098 children under the age of eighteen, and 1,317 citizens over the age of eight) Ten, 5,246 men and boys).
In addition, 5,638 ISIS mercenaries and 6,210 HTS mercenaries, along with mercenaries from the Turkestan Islamic Party, were killed in the Russian air strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had reported that Russia used during its air strikes the substance “thermite” – “Thermite”, which is composed of aluminum powder and iron oxide, which causes burns because it continues to ignite for about 180 seconds, as this material is found inside the bombs used by Russian aircraft. During recent weeks in the bombing of Syrian territory.